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Breaking Form Selects: Lucie Brock-Broido (A Summer Poetry Salon)

Aaron Smith and James Allen Hall Season 4 Episode 30

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Please enjoy this Summer Salon Series episode of Breaking Form Selects: Lucie Brock-Broido.

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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. 


 Notes:

Lucie Brock-Broido was born in Pittsburgh. Her collections include: A Hunger (1988), The Master Letters (1995), Trouble in Mind (2004), and Stay, Illusion (2013), which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Books Critics Circle Award. Read more about her, and more poems, here

Read this interview with Elizabeth Metzger on Brock-Broido.

Read Askold Melnyczuk's eulogy for LBB here

And read Joelle Biele's review of Stay, Illusion in Harvard Review here.

Read LBB"s poem "After the Grand Perhaps"

Read about the evolution of the Lady Godiva story here


Poems we read include:

"Jessica, from the Well" (Jstor / Virginia Quarterly Review subscription required) -- this version is slightly different than the published version included in A Hunger.

"Domestic Mysticism"

"After Raphael"

"Dove, Interrupted"